Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.

You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.

As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.

The past is always tense, the future perfect.

Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.

Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.

Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is what you leave on the page.

Time is how you spend your love.

I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.

Don't confuse honours with achievement.

Pulchritude--beauty where you would least suspect it, hidden in a word that looked like it should signify a belch or a skin infection.

A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.

I have always felt very fortunate to be have good people. You know, talent will carry you for so far but the values of the people around that should make the difference.

Lucy looked and saw that Aslan had just breathed on the feet of the stone giant. It's all right!" shouted Aslan joyously. "Once The feet are put right, all the rest of him will follow.

Inviting an invasion by foreigners and instigating one against them are two sides of the same neoconservative coin.

Revenge proves it's own executioner.

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Dear 338171 (May I call you 338?)

If my university years taught me anything, it was that the smarter a woman's background, the more primitive her bedchamber

What I think a lot of that was K-1 having had their Grand Prix finals not even a month before the "Dynamite!!" show so a lot of those guys were coming into that fight pressured to fight.

If pornographers are among the early adopters of the new technology, then it has definite commercial possibilities.